Dear xenopustex:

I share what you don’t believe in. I see truth in what I observe in nature and in people’s motivations and behaviors. I know we are born to reach out to a parent so to be taken care of- and so we are born loving. We are born loving not because it is a nice thing, to be loving, or a moral thing but simply because if the parent loves a child, then the parent will take care of the child.

Everything is about survival of the individual and the species. And love, that is necessary for the survival of the child, being dependent. But as adults, we don’t outgrow that need.

There is no religion in it, no morality- it is nature.

You talk about Faith in good outcomes- I have faith in the rules of nature. I have faith that a plant will grow toward the sun, that a male frog will seek a female to mate with, that water will move in the least resistant path along the ground, that animals and people move away from pain and toward pleasure, and so forth. These are the things I have faith in.

There is a whole lot of distortion of nature in human behavior: parents not loving their children, harming their children, violence and destruction and a whole lot of waste. This is because of the complication cognition brings about: the ability to think and choose- that often perverts nature, unfortunately. The perversion is people acting counter productive to their own survival and to the survival of their offspring.

So I have faith in nature and I have faith in the perversion, because both are realities. This is why I wrote to you repeatedly that all you need is one woman, one woman who is not in the habit of perverting nature.

Which one is it that you don’t believe: that there is an honest, loving woman out there or that it is possible for such a woman to love you?

anita